Canon PIXMA IP3600

[Bryan55]

The orange flashing light usually means no paper in tray or the front of the printer is not open to allow the printed copy to come out.

Bryan.

[lotv]

The dummy package was essential, other than that everything worked, no more reboot and windows to print, happy to find a solution

[XenosD]

Sorry for not replying earlier, but I had problems accessing the internet.
Anyway, Thanks for your immediate response.
The problem was that I had paper only in the rear tray (I never use the cassete of the printer). Now that I configured the printer to always use paper from the rear tray, everything seem to be OK.

[AnteZG]

Hi guys,

Reading this thread and using the dummy package, I managed to install the drivers for IP3600 on my HP Laptop with Ubuntu 10.4.

However, I will not use the printer by having it attached to
the laptop. The printer is attached to another (windows) PC and
I want to print from my laptop via the home network.

When I go to System->Admin->Printers and click to add a printer,
I can browse and locate the printer on the network. How do I proceed from there?

I get three options

[] Select printer from database
[] Provide PPD file
[] Search for a printer driver to download

The first option does not let me choose Canon IP3600. I did install the driver using the instructions in this thread, but it somehow didn't register in the database of drivers?

The second option doesn't work since I don't have a PPD file.

The third option does not return any results.

What should I do?

Thanks in advance.

[pardoed]

guruchomp, you rock. running ubuntu 10.04 LTS and an Canon Pixma ip2600 and the dummy package worked perfectly.

For everyone else...

Go here and get the dummy...

http:///packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/a...psys2/download

Then go here to get the driver...

http://software.canon-europe.com/index.asp

Thanks a bunch to everyone who helped. I am now sane again.

[Opti_Rick]

Thanks for all the input on this page, finally got my ip3600 printing.

Am I to guess though that it will not be printing at full resolution and will be limited to 600 dpi?

[Bryan55]

Yes you will be stuck with 600.

Also I have never found any software to check ink levels but it's no big deal to open the top to have a look. An empty one will flash.

Bryan

[jcd29]

Any idea how to make it work with 64 bit architecture?

[Bryan55]

jcd29 wrote
"Any idea how to make it work with 64 bit architecture?"

Have you looked at post #6 in this thread?

[johanbove]

Today the printer drivers kicked-in or something since all of a sudden I have a working printer. Not sure what made it work though.

Anyone had any success getting the printer to work on 11.04 Natty release? I have run into dependency problems trying to install the printer in Linux Mint 11.

Posted info about the problem here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1427098

I'm really considering going for a printer that is fully supported on linux...